The age of horrorism

Martin Amis
Sunday September 10, 2006

"...Until recently it was being said that what we are confronted with, here, is 'a civil war' within Islam. That's what all this was supposed to be: not a clash of civilisations or anything like that, but a civil war within Islam. Well, the civil war appears to be over. And Islamism won it. The loser, moderate Islam, is always deceptively well-represented on the level of the op-ed page and the public debate; elsewhere, it is supine and inaudible. We are not hearing from moderate Islam. Whereas Islamism, as a mover and shaper of world events, is pretty well all there is..."

This is a long essay but well worth the time. There are elements of his analysis; the anti-religious bias, the anti-Rumsfeld theme; that I don't agree with, but once past that the article is well written and analytical. Read it all